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package org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Properties;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;

/**
 * RecordReader.
 *
 */
public interface RecordReader {

  void initialize(InputStream in, Configuration conf, Properties tbl) throws IOException;

  Writable createRow() throws IOException;

  /**
   * Returns the number of bytes that we consumed.
   * -1 means end of stream.
   */
  int next(Writable row) throws IOException;

  void close() throws IOException;
}
